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Professor Emerit at UC Davis. Researches in the history & philosophy of biology and environmental ethics. https://www.RLM.net/ New open-access book w/ U Chicago Press: _The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · Oct 18

We can pin posts now! Here's mine—please check out my new book, _The Land Is Our Community
Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, available for purchase or free #OpenAccess download from UChicago Press.

🌱🐋 🌎 #EnvHist #EnvHums

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The Land Is Our Community

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment. Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservati...

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 7h

ICE is planning to hire contractors to run an around-the-clock social media surveillance program to track our every move.

If you think this will just be used for deportations - think again.

This is a violation of every single American’s privacy.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7h

Your daily reminder that Republicans in Congress have gone on vacation while they force thousands of Americans to go without a paycheck this week.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

For context, Democracy Docket first launched a paid membership 18 months ago and already has more than 50,000 paid members (and nearly 500,000 free subscribers).

Yes, the 100k number is only WaPo's print subscribers, but it is still a shocking decline given the interest in democracy and elections.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 5h

We have a free press for a reason.

This kind of Orwellian censorship is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Pete Hegseth does not get to decide what is reported to the public.

You would think a former news host would know that?

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 4h

Good for Sky Harbor! Let’s see more airports follow suit. That’s six now I know of including others in Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte and New York’s Westchester County.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 4h

The White House budget office said it is preparing to "ride out" the shutdown.

Instead of negotiating a budget that protects peoples' health care, the White House will continue to fire federal employees and wait.

They don't want to end this, they just want to posture while Americans pay the price.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4h

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

Politico @politico.com · 6h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 5h

I'm very much looking forward to my visit to ASU next week! Note that there is a livestreaming option if any non-Arizonans else want to join in—see the RSVP info.

I'll be drawing on ideas/themes from my book but from a different lens: stewardship (which is not something I talk about in the book).

Environmental
Stewardship
Join us for Humanities Week!
The Lincoln Center and ASU Farm welcome
author and professor Roberta L. Millstein, who will
discuss her book, “The Land Is Our Community.”
Inspired by Aldo Leopold's land ethic, Roberta L.
Millstein reexamines this philosophy in light of
contemporary ecology.
Her book provides new interpretations
of interdependence, land health, and the
“biotic community,” offering a fresh take
on how these ideas can guide modern
conservation and restoration policy.
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re an alum of one of the nine schools targeted by Trump’s “compact” and you don’t want this to happen to your alma mater, then please sign this petition: alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

#AcademicSky #EduSky

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Doonesbury comic showing a university where the only students of color are those that play basketball and football, except “at least one token scholar of color“. The last panel shows a voice from the White House saying “Token! Such a beautiful, old-fashioned word! I love the token, from the standpoint of race!”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23h

Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs is forcing retailers to pull back or delay plans to hire seasonal workers who pack orders at distribution centers, serve shoppers at stores and build holiday displays during the most important selling season of the year.
https://to.pbs.org/48uzsRo

Uncertainty over the economy and tariffs forces many retailers to be cautious on holiday hiring

A job placement firm forecasts that hiring for the last three months of the year will likely fall to its lowest level since the 2009 recession, or fewer than 500,000 positions.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

Between her personal and DOJ accounts, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon tweets over 100 times a day — a behavior that can safely be categorized as chronically online. But could her social media presence be killing her cases? https://bit.ly/4okeA47

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs

Read more here.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 1d

If there was any doubt from before, JD Vance’s appearances on the talk show circuit this weekend put them to rest. He really can lie about everything; he’s just not very good at it. And that has many wondering whether he can ever really take Trump’s place. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles.

DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

We saw the type of "reforms" Johnson has supported. His Medicaid "reforms" kicked nearly 10 million people off the program. His Obamacare "reforms" would have kicked millions off and allowed insurers to charge more for people with preexisting conditions.

He just wants to cut health care.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Obamacare fight escalates as shutdown drags on

Speaker Johnson calls the expiring subsidies at issue a "boondoggle" that won't be extended in this bill—or without "real reform."

Democrats aren't budging, saying action now is urgent to avert a premium hike.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Mike Johnson slams Obamacare funds as a 'boondoggle' as shutdown drags on

Johnson also addressed conservative calls to repeal Obamacare, whose enhanced tax credits form the main dispute between the two parties that led to the funding impasse.

www.nbcnews.com

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Bingo

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

The Katie Porter viral videos do show someone with deficient interpersonal skills at best. But let's be honest about why the pile-on is happening: the political establishment in California wants to tempt Alex Padilla into the race by smearing his top opponent.
prospect.org/politics/kat...

What’s Behind the Viral Katie Porter Attack

Today on TAP: The political establishment in California saw their moment and pounced.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 23h

No argument there